Russia, China Demand That US Immediately Release Maduro From Custody Within mere hours after President Trump announced the Saturday capture by US forces of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his wife after a brief shock bombing campaign and special forces operation in Caracas, Russia has demanded from Washington his immediate release. “We firmly call on the U.S. leadership to reconsider this position and release the lawfully […]

UK Goes Full Cradle-To-Grave With ‘Sinister’ Plan For Newborn Baby Digital IDs Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, The UK government’s digital ID push is escalating into outright dystopia, with ministers privately floating the idea of assigning digital identities to newborns right alongside their health records.  This “sinister” expansion, revealed by the Daily Mail, exposes Labour’s true agenda: a lifelong […]

Insider Trading? New Polymarket Account Made 12x Gain On Venezuela Intervention As the dust settles on President Trump’s Friday-night blitz on Venezuela, suspicions of insider trading on the secret operation are rising, after a brand-new Polymarket account scored a huge profit by betting on a US military attack just before it happened. As a result, a US House representative is already preparing to introduce a bill that would […]

Brexit Architect Blows Lid Off Deep State Plot To Destroy Nigel Farage And Reform UK Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, Dominic Cummings, the political strategist who oversaw Brexit, has dropped a bombshell warning to Nigel Farage: the UK establishment is plotting to crush him and Reform UK by any means necessary, including illegal tactics, to prevent a populist takeover. As Reform surges in polls and eyes major gains […]

Canceled Flights Across Caribbean Resume After US Captures Maduro Air travel across the Caribbean has normalized after a day of disruptions triggered by a U.S. special forces operation that successfully captured Venezuela’s socialist dictator Nicolás Maduro. Late Saturday night, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy wrote on X that “original restrictions around Caribbean airspace are expiring at 12:00 a.m. ET and flights can […]

Germany’s Banking Sector Faces Growing Crisis Amid Record Insolvencies Submitted by Thomas Kolbe The German economic crisis is slowly but surely making its way into the balance sheets of banks. Above all, the crisis in the largely credit-financed Mittelstand is increasingly weighing on savings banks and cooperative banks. The year 2025 is ending as a disastrous year for the German economy. Around 24,000 companies filed for […]

The Misinformation Inquisition: How Censorship Shields Approved Narratives From Scrutiny Authored by Tilak Doshi via Substack, As the year drew to a close, the guardians of climate orthodoxy once again unleashed their ritualistic howls of indignation at the actions of the Trump administration. Last week’s op-ed in The Guardian, Bob Ward and Michael Mann—attack dogs of the alarmist establishment—likened the US government’s […]

Visualizing All Of The World’s Oil Reserves By Country Oil remains one of the most strategically important resources in the global economy. It powers transportation systems, underpins industrial activity, and continues to shape geopolitics and trade flows. While renewable energy is growing, oil still plays a dominant role in meeting global energy needs. This visualization, via Visual Capitalist’s Bruno Venditti, ranks countries by […]

4,400 Starlink Satellites To Move To Lower Orbit Authored by Jill McLaughlin via The Epoch Times, SpaceX will move about 4,400 Starlink satellites to a lower orbit this year to better control risks and improve safety, the company announced Friday. Michael Nicholls, vice president of Starlink engineering, posted the news on X, saying the adjustment would increase space safety in several ways. Elon Musk’s Starlink system […]

Winter Energy Bills Surge, Leaving American Families Struggling As December BGE bills arrive after a cold winter, many Harford County residents say soaring energy costs are leaving them frightened and overwhelmed, according to Fox Baltimore. Jenny, who lives in a 1,000-square-foot home and keeps her thermostat in the mid-60s, is facing a bill of about $400 despite working full time and spending most of the day out of the house. […]

Made-In-USA Cars Granted Trump Tax Break In IRS Deduction Guidance Authored by Naveen Athrappully via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and the Department of the Treasury issued guidance on Wednesday regarding the deduction for car loan interest payments made by taxpayers. The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) building in Washington on March 25, 2024. Madalina Vasiliu/The Epoch Times A statement from […]

What Is The Real Reason For The Historic Drop In US Homicide Rates? Despite a flurry of politically charged violence and a number of Islamic and left-wing motivated terror attacks, 2025 also experienced the largest single-year decline in homicides in US history.  The plunge brings official US homicide rates to near-record lows. Based on a sampling of preliminary crime statistics from 550 U.S. law enforcement agencies, the year is […]

Coal Remains King In India While Exports Optimize Domestic Stock By Tsvetana Paraskova of OilPrice.com, Coal India Limited, the biggest coal producer in the world’s second-biggest coal user, opened this year its online coal supply auctions directly to buyers in Bangladesh, Bhutan, and Nepal, as Indian coal supply has swelled amid weaker-than-expected demand in recent months.  Amid an oversupply of coal and weaker demand, […]

California’s Open-Carry Ban Shot Down By Federal Appeals Court 2026 started with a bang for proponents of the human right of armed self-defense, as a US appeals court on Friday ruled that California’s de facto statewide ban on openly carrying firearms violates the US Constitution. However, there’s reason to think it will flip the other way as the litigation proceeds to the next phase. For now, though, leftists are recoiling. […]

USDA: Undercover Investigators To Make Sure Retailers Comply With New Food Stamp Restrictions Authored by Zachary Stieber via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Undercover investigators with the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) are going to check whether stores are complying with new restrictions on food stamps, the department said in a new notice to state and regional officials. A woman walks by a sign advertising the […]

FT Exposes The Literal Definition Of Ponzi-Scheming In Private Equity In what can only be described as the financial industry’s most brazen act of self-dealing since the last crisis, private equity giants are now openly selling assets to themselves at record pace, propping up their crumbling empire with a tactic that reeks of pure Ponzi desperation. According to the Financial Times, roughly one-fifth of all private equity exits […]

Chinese EV Exports Are Exploding, And The West Has No Way To Stop Them Authored by Michael Gauthier via carscoops.com, Chinese EV exports are booming and were up 87% last month. Mexico was the top export market in November with 19,344 units. Over 600,000 Chinese EVs have been exported to Europe in 2025. Chinese cars were once the butt of jokes, but they’ve become a major threat to Western automakers. That’s clear […]

Visualizing The Distribution Of Household Income In America High income households in America capture a large share of the nation’s earnings, and this gulf has widened over time. In 2024, the top 20% – with an average household income of $316,100 – took home 52.2% of all national income, up 8.7 percentage points from 1974. Meanwhile, the bottom 20% received just 3.1%, further shrinking over the period. This graphic, via Visual […]

The Unreported Story Of Grid Scale Battery Fires Authored by Francis Menton via the Manhattan Contrarian, The geniuses who are planning New York’s energy future think that they can make intermittent wind and solar generators work to power the electrical grid by the simple device of providing some battery storage. The idea is that when there is abundant wind and sun, they can store up the power for use during those calm and dark […]

Democrats Melt Down Over Capture And Arrest Of Dictator Maduro President Donald Trump ordered a midnight military raid that captured Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores. U.S. forces pulled off the job without a hitch, hauling in the pair. “The United States of America has successfully carried out a large scale strike against Venezuela and its leader, President Nicolas Maduro, who has been, along with […]

North America Leads Largest LNG Export Surge Since 2022 Authored by Tsvetana Paraskova via OilPrice.com, Surging liquefied natural gas exports from new North American export plants likely pushed global LNG shipments in 2025 by the most since 2022, Kpler data showed on Tuesday. The annual rise in 2025 would be the steepest increase in global LNG exports since 2022, when shipments grew by 4.5% compared to 2021, the data showed. […]

Not The Bee: Woke City Appoints Convicted Murderer Who Shot Teen Girl To Police Review Board Kyle Hedquist, a convicted murderer who was sentenced to life in prison for shooting a teenage girl to death in cold blood, has been reappointed to serve on Salem, Oregon’s police review board – all in the name of his so-called “perspective” on the criminal justice system. Hedquist, an Oregon native, was convicted of the aggravated […]

The $60 Billion Question: Is Venezuela Secretly A Bitcoin Superpower? Authored by Bradley Hope and Clara Preve via whalehunting.projectbrazen.com, Alex Saab may control $60 billion in Bitcoin for the Maduro regime. As Trump’s naval blockade tightens, the real battle is being fought on the blockchain. Nicolás Maduro is in U.S. custody. In the early hours of Saturday morning, Delta Force operators dragged the Venezuelan president […]

9.3 Million Americans Work Multiple Jobs To Make Ends Meet Imagine getting home from your nine-to-five job to have dinner with your family, maybe read a bedtime story and put your kids to bed. But instead of winding down on the couch afterwards, you get ready and start your second workday. That’s the daily reality for millions of Americans, for whom one job is no longer enough to pay rent, put food on the table and cover other […]

Five Takeaways From The US’ “Special Military Operation” In Venezuela Authored by Andrew Korybko via Substack, It was astoundingly successful and will likely serve to coerce the rest of the hemisphere into strategically capitulating to the US… The US launched a half-hour-long “special military operation” in Venezuela on Saturday morning that culminated in Delta Force’s capture of President Nicolas Maduro. Several […]